Odd Places to go CD Shopping

The pawnshops around here pretty much dried up a few years ago. I'm not even sure they take cds anymore. I've never had any luck at yard sales. Even when I did find something it looked like someone had taken sandpaper to it. Goodwill has some nice finds and is worth checking out every so often.

My big odd place for finds is library book sales. I've gotten the 3 disc Doomsday For The Deceiver and a nice Scorpions collection at one. They also tend to have things I wouldn't buy for much more than the dollar they charge but would like in my collection. Those sales were gold mines when I collected dvds.

I think I've told this story before, but a good chunk of my vinyl collection came from a library sale. The library I used to go to back east had a table out in the hallway for books for sale. Over time this morphed into people dropping off any and everything to sell. One day there where these four nice crates filled with perfect condition records just sitting there. It was a great mix of different genres. I ended up needing my buddy's truck to haul it all home. I paid a grand total of ten dollars, with the librarian acting like she overcharged me since "aren't those things useless today?".

The lates for me was JR store on MANHATTAN NEW YORK. I went there last month to buy what they are known for, computers, mp3 and everything about electronics. But when I got there, they have a section of music and dvd's and I found plenty of good music. Impelliteri,UDO,tourniquet,savatage albums from $6 to $9, accept albums for $5, primal fear,sinner, some imports, plenty of great prices from $5 and up new.

powermacho wrote:

The lates for me was JR store on MANHATTAN NEW YORK. I went there last month to buy what they are known for, computers, mp3 and everything about electronics. But when I got there, they have a section of music and dvd's and I found plenty of good music. Impelliteri,UDO,tourniquet,savatage albums from $6 to $9, accept albums for $5, primal fear,sinner, some imports, plenty of great prices from $5 and up new.

I used to hit J&R all the time when I was in college. Great store. Haven't been there in many, many years. Glad to hear they're still kickin' the metal!

I have gotten a majority of my collection in pawnshops but like jstate, the pawnshops over here do not carry CD's anymore.

Fat Freddy wrote:

powermacho wrote:

The lates for me was JR store on MANHATTAN NEW YORK. I went there last month to buy what they are known for, computers, mp3 and everything about electronics. But when I got there, they have a section of music and dvd's and I found plenty of good music. Impelliteri,UDO,tourniquet,savatage albums from $6 to $9, accept albums for $5, primal fear,sinner, some imports, plenty of great prices from $5 and up new.

I used to hit J&R all the time when I was in college. Great store. Haven't been there in many, many years. Glad to hear they're still kickin' the metal!

That place is great news, since VIRGIN RECORDS STORES closed I was really sad, but that place has around the same things Virgin records had, and even more.

The local A&P supermarket near me has a rack near the front registers with a bunch of cheap CDs and DVDs on it, and I've made a few scores there too. Most of the CDs are pretty crap (generic Greatest Hits comps like those "Extended Versions" collections) but in the past I've found some goodies. A while back I got Cheap Trick's DREAM POLICE and S/T (both remastered w/bonus tracks) and Skid Row's SLAVE TO THE GRIND (the 'dirty' version with the song "Get the F**k Out" no less!) for $5.98 each. Can't beat that with a stick.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

TheNazgul wrote:

I hear that. Go in the middle of the day.

As luck would have it, I'm doing a little free-lance work in town and I saw a pawn shop arcoss the street from where I'm working. It was closed for the night, but I'm going back next week to do more work, so I'll definately be hitting that one up during the daylight hours. It's on a college campus, so there might be some real goodies in there. Heres hoping!!

Struck out at the pawn shop. I went in and they had no music at all. The owner directed me to a music shop a few doors down, but it was more like a dj supply shop. Lotsa equipment and only urban music. No rock.